Just now, chartjack2 said:

Why don’t they start an hour earlier so they can play the entire top 40 in full?

With all the long runners in the chart what's the point of playing every song, it gets memed a lot here but you would genuinely be hearing the likes of Lose Control every week and it would be a real turn-off, plus there's no guarantee they can play everything anyway especially with so many songs without clean edits making the chart/songs by controversial artists. Back in the day with so many new entries/songs entirely fit for radio it would be fine but not in today's chart landscape. Skipping songs is fine if it's the right ones (long-runners/songs on ACR) unfortunately they hardly ever do it right.

I’d be totally up for them playing the whole chart every week but I realise I’m not exactly the typical listener.

The number of songs that are genuinely unplayable is pretty small. And actually I’d be less triggered by hearing “Lose Control” if it was just being played alongside every other song in the chart rather then being played as an editorial choice while new entries are skipped.

Ultimately though I think we have to accept that we’re lucky to be getting a chart show at all in 2025.

6 hours ago, Julian_ said:

Ultimately though I think we have to accept that we’re lucky to be getting a chart show at all in 2025.

This!

If you genuinely can’t cope with listening to Lose Control once every week, there’s probably bigger than problems than the length of the chart show to consider.